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For two houses plus and a large enough engine that MAY make the power at 1800 rpm the 300 Ford may be an answer. I was given this hardly-used Winco Ford 20kw* solely because the mansion owner didn’t want to feed it 400k scfm but still have to listen to a 3600rpm engine . * it says 20kw but...

I had initially installed a slap switch with the original push button on my Forward lift. I then added a contactor (big relay) later, after the second runaway when lifting a significant load. I was able to fit the slap switch in the same motor housing as the push button, with the contactor (in...

My house and shop both have steel roofs with Scotchbright-looking ridge vent closures. I still find piles of wind blown snow inside the attic atop the insulation, especially with this monthlong windstorm of 30mph+ with gusts to 80.

Is the garage heated? What is your climate? I would be tempted to screw or sweat the spigot into a tee as an inside drain if there is ever a chance of freezing.

It’s a CORDLESS chainsaw!

Definitely start with a grinder to get past the hardening.

I have access to a HF 2-bag mixer, so anything under the 3-yard truck minimum gets spun in the mixer. Mortar gets hand mixed in a wheelbarrow. Grout goes in buckets.

Still working on getting my 18yo Honda running again. Cleaning the carburetor and replacing the gas did get it running, but backfiring. Took it all even further apart and found the slow jet was plugged hard. YouTube showed that I should be able to see thru the jet, but mine must have a rock in...

Here is my $300 5yo FLIR for iPhone. I’m sure the imagers nowadays are better.

I just gutted a neglected 55yo house to the studs and replaced all the plumbing/electrical/doors/windows/roof/stairs/hvac/drywall/ceilings. I got it from 6000cfm to 900cfm (including the garage door and wood stove flue) with 108 tubes of caulking and a double layered wall (1.5” foam&furring...

I have never seen a truss that couldn’t handle 10lbs/ft2 dead load on the bottom chord. Most truss sheets even state that unless built heavier. Imagine doing pull-ups from your truss. Two or three people will outweigh your door and the truss will handle that, especially at only a 20’ span.

We don’t have ANY ethanol up here, which is what threw me. Apparently a barge or two of Outside gasoline each month makes it up here, so maybe that was the source. We have never needed Sta-bil in the past, but perhaps that is no longer true.

I have been procrastinating on starting an upcoming big project that I know will take up a huge amount of space, time, and money. So in order to create more room and to quit tripping over all these other microprojects, I started with the biggest obstruction: This 18yo 1k mile Foreman that...

My 10” exhaust hood vent has a built-in magnet and so far hasn’t clanged, but we have only seen gusts to 70mph. The hood fan even on low has no problem blowing it open.

Is the roof also double-walled? Any seams torn? Can you fit inside via the manway? Staybolts between the inner and outer walls? I don’t think pressuring the inside will help much. You would have to move/remove a lot of cork to make room for the re-expansion. How cold is it in Vermont? Fill it...

The bent and twisted Mog snowplow mount: Resisted simple torquing of a couple thousand foot-pounds. But thirty tons concentrated in a smaller span… …finally got it straight and flat enough to be able to bolt onto the Unimog! $520 saved! (see posts #64,477, #74,600 and #74,614)

Here is the pretty one, soon to get a transfusion from a running rollover Mog.

The guys building a house next door have one of these, and they haven’t tipped it over yet. Don‘t get me started on COO

We, too, are forecast to get an inaugural dump of at least five inches of snow starting, oh, six hours ago. Still pretty sunny this evening, but the forecast was so dire we have all been scurrying around all week getting ready for Snowpocalypse25. Needless to say, I am more prepared than I have...

I have read that some municipalities elsewhere mandate a 3 year cycle. After paying a lot (at the time) to have the back yard decimated to replace a septic-resembling system during the 2004 Olympics, we have been using the Games as the reminder to have it pumped out.